Connacht travel to Benetton in Rainbow Cup action looking to make it eight wins in a row against the Italians.
Andy Friend's side are in must-win territory tonight and will do themselves and others chasing a big favour with a win.
Here's everything you need to know about Benetton v Connacht:
Where and when is it?
The match takes place in Treviso on Saturday, May 29.
What time is kick-off?
The action gets under way at 5.15 pm.
What channel is it on?
Eir Sport 1 will show the clash live from 5.10 pm.
You can also follow updates with The Irish Mirror's live blog.
Benetton team
Jayden Hayward; Edoardo Padovani, Ignacio Brex, Marco Zanon, Monty Ioane; Paolo Garbisi, Dewaldt Duvenage (capt); Thomas Gallo, Corniel Els, Marco Riccioni; Niccolò Cannone, Federico Ruzza; Sebastian Negri, Michele Lamaro, Toa Halafihi.
Replacements: Gianmarco Lucchesi, Ivan Nemer, Filippo Alongi, Irné Herbst, Manuel Zuliani, Marco Barbini, Callum Braley, Ratuva Tavuyara.
Connacht team
John Porch; Peter Sullivan, Bundee Aki, Tom Daly, Alex Wootton; Conor Fitzgerald, Kieran Marmion; Denis Buckley, Shane Delahunt, Finlay Bealham; Niall Murray, Ultan Dillane; Cian Prendergast, Jarrad Butler (capt), Paul Boyle.
Replacements: Dave Heffernan, Paddy McAllister, Dominic Robertson-McCoy, Oisín Dowling, Abraham Papali’i, Caolin Blade, Jack Carty, Sammy Arnold.
Quotes corner
Connacht coach Pete Wilkins: “There are different strategies you can take to take the chaos out of the game
“One of them is to kick long, or as long as you can, and try to squeeze the opposition with a good kick chase. But that previous game(Connacht’s 19-17 win in Italy in February) showed that Benetton often kick it back longer and you don’t end up reversing the pressure or momentum too much.
“You can certainly look to kick the ball off the field and look to pressure teams at the set-piece, that was something, again, that was in our gameplan going there previously. But their lineout actually functioned much better than it had done in the previous weeks, prior to playing us.
“There are different ways to look at it, in terms of how you control the field position. As I said, we tried a couple of things that day that didn’t quite get the rewards that we were after, so we’ll have to look at it possibly a little bit differently with possibly varied techniques going into this one, in terms of how we use the ball.”
Betting odds
Benetton win: 7/5
Connacht win: 4/7
Draw: 17/1
